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Amid sanctions and a financial crisis, Dmitry Livanov discusses ongoing reforms to science funding.

Plans to double the government's investment in fighting antibiotic resistance by spreading roughly $1.2 billion in funding across several federal agencies.

The 100 most international universities in the world 2015.

In his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama spent a few seconds announcing a "Precision Medicine Initiative," but did little to explain what he has in mind.

The Wellcome Trust launches the new Collaborative Awards, enabling teams of researchers to apply together and bring new perspectives to the work they are doing.

Women shy away from fields in which talent, not hard work, is thought to be key, survey suggests.

The European Research Council (ERC) would lose €221 million, mostly in 2016 and 2017.

A few professional scientists have found a sneaky way to cheat their way up the career ladder. They evaluate their own research by pretending to be someone else.

Investigators with substantial, long-term, unrestricted research support may generally hold no more than one NIGMS research grant.

Institutions 'unbending' on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume. Meanwhile, a deal that meets the universities’ requirements was made with Springer.

The European Commission has agreed to retain the role of EU Chief Scientific Adviser, despite the departure of Anne Glover.

Germany's Holtzbrinck, which owns Nature publisher Macmillan Science and Education, will combine the majority of its activities with BC Partners' Springer unit.

A deal being announced today with Genentech points the way for 23andMe to become a sustainable business.

Two of India's science funding agencies are joining the push to make the results of the research they fund freely available to the public.

How using absolute numbers and journal reputation can yield misleading results.

Share of research funding going to young scientists is declining.

Data show scores given to grant applications by external reviewers don't correlate with what actually gets funded.

Ten people who mattered this year.

The former blog "Retraction Watch" will become an online, public, and freely accessible database of all retractions in every field of science.

A study based on arXiv shows that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others.

In northern countries the most important incentives for individual researcher mobility and ERC success is early independence.

First call for "Shared Research Facilities" shall organize and give access to bigger research infrastructures in Austria

£6 billion (ca. 9 billion CHF) package for science and innovation in the years 2016 to 2021 announced. A review of research councils will ensure 'maximum impact' from investment.

The ERC has selected 328 first class scientists to receive its prestigious Starting Grants, worth up to €2 million each.

Billionaire David Rockefeller, along with the foundation of his longtime friend, the late Greek shipping billionaire Stavros Niarchos, have pledged $150 million to expand the university founded by Rockefeller’s grandfather.

The Social Tech Guide aims to celebrate, inspire and accelerate the use of digital technology as a tool for significant social change.

The state of government open data across the globe in 2014. Switzerland has space for improvement.

New research shows that most exaggeration in health-related science news is already present in the press releases issued by universities.

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